Tycho Brahe
1546-1601
Danish Astronomer
Tycho Brahe is considered the greatest observational astronomer of the pre-telescopic era. His observations of the 1572 nova and 1577 comet helped undermine Ari...
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Sophie Brahe
1556-1643
Danish horticulturist and astronomer who occasionally assisted her brother Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). She frequently visited Tycho at his observatory Uraniborg on the island Hven ...
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Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601)
Danish astronomer
Tycho Brahe was one of the most colorful astronomers in history. Born in Denmark, Brahe was "adopted" (some say kidnapped) by his childless unc...
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The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) carried pretelescopic astronomy to its highest perfection and tried to steer a middle course between the Ptolemaic and the Copernican systems.Tycho Brahe,...
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One of the central figures of the modern scientific breakthrough, Tycho Brahe was also a multifaceted cultural personality and a promoter of Renaissance art and culture in Scandinavia. Among his many ...
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Tycho Brahe made the most accurate observations ever in naked-eye astronomy, which led to the laws of planetary motion created by Johannes Kepler, one of his students.Tycho was born December 14, 1546,...
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Counted among the greatest pre-telescopic astronomers, Tycho Brahe was renowned for his many achievements, including revealing irregularities in the Moon's orbit and developing the wall quadrant and o...
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Tycho Brahe was one of the most colorful astronomers in history. Born on December 14, 1546, in Denmark, Tycho was "adopted" (some say kidnapped) by his childless uncle at the age of one. Either way, h...
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